Americans Are Furious At Congress

This a long quote but it’s supremely relevant. I hope I’m not abusing the Geller Report’s hospitality. If I am I apologize.

“The American people may oppose the nation’s present course, but by themselves they can not change it. They may oppose the taxes and the bureaucrats, but these are merely consequences, which cannot be significantly cut back so long as their source is untouched. The people may curse “big government” in general — but to no avail if the pressure groups among them, following the logic of a mixed economy, continue to be fruitful and to multiply. The people may “swing to the right”, but it is futile, if the leaders of the right are swinging to their own (religious) brand of statism. The country may throw the rascals out, but it means nothing if the next administration is made of neo-rascals from the other party.

To change a nation’s basic course requires more than a mood of popular discontent. It requires the definition of a new direction for the country to take. Above all, it requires a theoretical justification for this direction, one which would convince people that the proposed course is practical and moral. Moral considerations alone might not be sufficient to move men, if they believe the course being urged is impractical; practical considerations alone will not move men, if they believe the course is immoral. The union of the two, however, is irresistable.

By its nature, changing the course of a nation is a task that can be achieved only by men who deal with the field of ideas. In the long run the people of a country have no alternative: they end up following the lead of the intellectuals.

The intellectuals cannot escape ideas either. They may become anti-ideological skeptics, who offer the country for guidance only subjective feelings and short-range pragmatism; but it is the ideas — ultimately, the basic ideas — they still accept, explicitly or otherwise, which determine the content of their feelings and of their pragmatism. In the long run the intellectuals, too, have no alternative: they end up following the lead of the philosophers.

If there is no new philosophy to guide and rally the better men among them, the intellectuals will follow one that isold and bankrupt. If there are no living ideas, they will follow dying ones and take the country with them. The shambles of the Kantian movement, therefore, does not necessarily mean an early end to its stranglehold over the nation’s life and institutions. In the absence of any principled opposition, the Kantian ideas by default will continue to rule, and to move us further down the road on which, for so many years, we have been traveling.” – Leonard Peikoff, from “The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom In America”, 1982

The dems appear to be pushing their opponents into strongly crossing certain lines, as, they must think that, were this to happen, it will justify the declaration of martial law. If so, this would be the nail in the coffin of our constitutional republic, as, the only recourse to contest this would create a new civil war, in which the federal government has all of the cards. Who would win this? Why, the far left dems, their RINO accomplices, the NWO, and, the Chinese, as, the break up of America, opens the door to the imposition of the “elite” controlled techno totalitarian state, that will be the model for the rest of the west.